Quotes About Getting Your Own Way

#1. You're rich, spoiled and used to getting your own way."
"Not true. If I had my own way you would have kissed me and ridden me like a cowboy while screaming 'yeehaw'.

Dani Alexander

#2. Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#3. Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

J. Donald Walters

#4. It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

Charles De Lint

#5. Was he laughing at me? Was I so pathetic that the thought that not only getting caught, but being humiliated with laughter was appropriate punishment for my lameness?

Shelly Crane

#6. And getting licked by someone furry wasn't threatening but being kissed by the non furred male was, which made sense when the furry and non furred were the same person. Wolf.

Anne Bishop

#7. I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point.

Jon Krakauer

#8. The PCT had gotten easier for me, but that was different from it getting easy.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. She was too interested in getting married to waste her time on someone ineligible. Infatuation made for odd behavior, though. And love and marriage did not often coincide where wealth and power were.

Anne Leonard

#10. Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.

Auliq Ice

#11. A lot of stories about me getting into trouble start with a girl.

Kelley Armstrong

#12. Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate.

Jimmy Fallon

#13. There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

Timothy Griffin

#14. It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

Janet Evanovich

#15. Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was.

Mark Hill

#16. My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.

Gina Carano

#17. I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.

Sue Enquist

#18. A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

Eric Hoffer

#19. She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

Leo Szilard

#21. Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

Jean Kerr

#22. There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way

Terry Venables

#23. Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you.
I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.

CLAMP

#24. As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you've really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.

Guy Adams

#25. The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.

Chrissie Hynde

#26. Stay off the bandwagon. More likely than not, your own way of getting there makes for a better journey.

Faydra D. Fields

#27. One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup ... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.

Steve Maraboli

#28. Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

Sam Riley

#29. It's like concentrating on your own breath: once you start thinking about the air rushing in and out of your body, your breath has a way of getting stuck in your throat so that you understand how easy it would be to fall down and die.

Carol Shields

#30. You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

Anne Lamott

#31. If you can concentrate on listening to another person - without your own viewpoint getting in the way, without judging or discarding or thinking of a response - for the simple purpose of taking in someone else's reality, you start to understand her.

L. Alison Heller

#32. Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.

Conan O'Brien

#33. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY

Eugene H. Peterson

#34. Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way to let Happiness happen in your life in Abundance!

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#35. So if you're really unhappy down there, and if all kinds of people are telling you that you're suffering from severe perceptual disorders, look for your own way of getting here, and when you find it, could you please bring some cards, 'cause we're getting pretty tired of the marbles. - from Pipes

Etgar Keret

#36. Oh, my God. Could you quit flaunting your tits around? I'm getting so sick of looking at yours, I can hardly stand to look at my own. And, by the way, if he hasn't taken the bait yet, he isn't going to.

K.I. Lynn

#37. The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

Bryant McGill

#38. You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

Jennifer Armentrout

#39. The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

Bruce Campbell

#40. It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.

Michael Kors

#41. When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

Philipp Meyer

#42. The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#43. Getting up in the morning and loving what you do is a dream come true.

Elie Tahari

#44. Damn, Ty, I'm getting slizzard," Mel says, sending everyone into bouts of laughter. "Dumb ass, you don't have a G6. You can't get slizzard in a frickin' Prius," I joke with her. We all laugh again

Julie Prestsater

#45. Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.

Ronald Reagan

#46. Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Donald Altman

#47. Circles and getting rid of everything else.

James C. Collins

#48. Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

Jennifer Egan

#49. I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

Jim Cummings

#50. I'm wondering if you can speed this story up a bit," Ms. Jordan said. "I spilled pudding on Missy Trillin's head while she was taking a pee." "I see." Ms. Jordan nodded. "Now I think we're getting somewhere.

James Patterson

#51. Don't you realize I've already scaled the highest wall there is - getting you to love me?

Ryohgo Narita

#52. Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page.

Vito Acconci

#53. The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Will Rogers

#54. Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Bert Blyleven

#55. I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Dean Cain

#56. The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.

Bill Bryson

#57. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

#58. My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

Miru Kim

#59. Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

Stephanie Beacham

#60. I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

Conan O'Brien

#61. Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.

Heather Wolf

#62. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby

Seanan McGuire

#63. It's not getting to the wall that counts; it's what you do after you hit it.

Darren Hardy

#64. There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

Matthew Perry

#65. The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy to close.

Bernard Lagat

#66. This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

Oliver DeMille

#67. I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

Elizabeth Edwards

#68. Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

Natalie Wood

#69. If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.

Mark Wahlberg

#70. Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

Michael Beschloss

#71. If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

#72. The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

Bo Ryan

#73. We can all talk to the dead. It's getting them to talk back that's the hard part."2

Bruce M. Hood

#74. And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you.

Ahmed Mostafa